Safety device



April ze, 1927. 1,626,077

C. H. GAGE SAFETY DEVICE Filed Aphril 15, 1925 v y 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Apr. 26, `1927.

l UNITED STAT-ES crIaImIIsMH. GAGE, or WASHINGTON, DISTRICT or Comninam.A

SAFETY DEVICE.

Application led April 15, 1925. Serial No. 23,364.

This invention relates to railway crossing gates.

In the accompanying drawings, forming ,a'part of this specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a road cross-v ing"provided with my device.

igure 2 is a similar view to Figure 1,

showingseparate control systems.

Figurel 3 is a. side elevation of the gate and connections. a

Figure 4 is a front'elevation of the gate.

Figure 5 is section at 5.-5 of Figure 3.

Figure 6 is a section through the channel track, with the lowerportion of the gate vshown in fragmentar section.

Figure. 7 is a side e evation of the driving means for the gate.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the several views and in the specification, in which there is shown in Figure 1, a pair of parallel railroad beds 2 and 3 and a cross vehicle road 4. Spaced apart from the railway 3 and crossing the road 4 is agate 5, the gate 5 being suitably ,spaced from the adjacent rail of the road 3 so as to permit the easy accommodation of a vehicle between the railway and gate, so that in case a vehicle has passed the gate, it will not be injured by a passing trainor be compelled to cross the railway. Spaced backward from the gate 5 u on the roadway 4' is a signal tower 6, preferalb about 100 yards from the gate 5, the tower 6 being equipped with a semaphore 7, or other suitable means of warning a pedestrian or vehicle operator of an approachin train, the si nals 7 and Sbeing operated vfrom a suitab e power unit 9, which likewise o erates the ate 5 in the manner hereina er describe The power unit 9 is spaced from the gate 5 a/distance slightly over thatv of the length ofthe gate 5, and the gate is operate in the followin mannerz -Carried beneath the gate 5 isaar 10 carrying on its lower portion rack teeth 11, the bar 10 being 'embraced within a, channel bar 12, the gate 5'being supported b rollers ,13 interconnected with the gate byv rackets 14, the rollers 13 riding upon tracks 15, the tracks 15 being spaced apart on leach side of the channel 12. Carried within the power unit 9 is a suitable motor 16 having a shaft 17. Carried upon the shaft 17 isV a'small gear 18, meshing with a gear 19, the gear ly being spaced.

19 being mounted upon a suitable shaft 20. Carried Vupon the shaft 20 is a pinion 21, the pinion 21 being beneath the rack 1,1 and co-nieshing with the teeth of the rack 11. The channel extends with an open top substantially twice the length of the gate, and

i channel 12. Upst-anding beside the tracks 15 are posts 27 provided with brackets 28,

:the brackets 28 carrying rollers 29, the

rollers 29 adapted to engage upon tracks30, tli'e tracks 30 carried one on each side of the gate 5 and substantially midway vertically of the gate 5, whereby in cooperation with the rollers 13, the gates are rigidly supported in a vertical and perfectly alined position. Upon the approach of the train, suitable circuits are closed, and the motor 16, for each gate is set into action, 'and this motor through 'the intermediate gearing, closes the gate. When the train leaves the crossing the motor operates upon the gate. It is obvious thatthe gear 21'may be turned by any suitable means.

Claims: l l1. In a gate construction, a pair of spaced rails, a gate arranged between the rails to travel longitudinally thereof, flanged wheels traveling upon the rails and connected with the gate to support the same, a rack bar operating between the rails and attached to the bottom of the gatg, and a rotatable gear engaging the rack lhar. v

2. In a gate construction, a pair of spaced rails, a channel bar/extending longitudinally i betweenthe rails, a gate arranged between the rails to travel longitudinally thereof, a

.rack bar attached to thevbo'ttom of the gate and operating within 'the channel bar, flanged wheels engaging the rails and connected with the gate to support the same, and a gear engaging the rack bar to advance the same.

3. In a gatevconstruction, a track, a gate to travel longitudinally of the track, wheels supporting the gate and traveling upon the track, a low carried by the gate to remove ice and t e like from the track, and a brush arranged beneath the plow to sweep the track after it has been cleared by' the plow.

4. In a, gate construction, a track, a gate to travel longitudinallyl of the track, Wheels supporting the gatek and traveling on the track, a plow carried by the gate to clear the track, a channel bar extending longitudinally of the track, a rack barrattached to the gate and operatinv within the channel bar, a gear engaging t e rack bar to move the same, and aplow carried by the gate and operating Within `the channel bar to clean the same.V

n testimony whereof I ax my signature. f

CHARLES H. GAGE. 

